plen entry 3

While flipping through the TV channels today a story on BBC America had caught my attention. The story was about a Swedish cartoonist who had to go into hiding because he drew a picture of the prophet Muhammad on a dog’s body. Thinking how this might be on the BBC blog on Google reader I decided to look up the story. After a few minutes of searching I found the head line saying “Swedish cartoon drawer in hiding”. Wanting to find out more about the story I clicked on the link and read the page report.
Three key points I found in the story were that terrorist groups had put a 100,000 dollar reward on the authors head. Another is that the author was brought into hiding and is not known when he may return from it. Finally the Swedish prime minister had met 22 Muslim ambassadors from other countries over the issue.
While reading through the article I couldn’t help but chuckle a few times. I found it silly that the Muslim community can be so easily offended about one picture of their prophet, while Christians and Catholics see indecent pictures of their saviors being drawn everyday even some by Muslim illustrators. To me this is a very ironic story because it shows how politically correct the world has become and how easily offended some communities can be on the subject of religion.